Doll&#39;s eyes with locking mechanism



March 15, 1927.

w. sGRG L DOLLS EYES WITH LOCKING MECHANISM Filed Feb. 12. 1926 PatentedMai. 15,1927. I

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' jip' iieatibnantiserum-y '12, ea, Serial s a-ea; and iii Gen tanninease- V Dolls heads with sleeping eyes are known in which the parts forlocking and releasing the eyes or lids are actuated by turning the dollfrom one side to the other. The locking 1 5 means described in U. S. A.Patent 1,412,670 dated April 11, 1922 discloses locking means by whichthe eyes may be kept open if the doll is in a lying position, but theselocking means must have a certain play in their ide so that they canslide very easily, in

' order that the actuation of the pin is carried out in a simple secureand gentle way. This has however the result that the locking pin may beaccidentally released it the child plays with the doll, e. 9;. that theeyes are not completely opened if the doll is in the upright position asthe pendulum is prevented by the released locking pin from executing afull oscillation. i According to the invention this inconvenience isavoided by arranging onthe 1 locking pin a guide arm which, ifthe'locking device is in the operative position, pros jects in the pathof oscillation of the pendulum, so that the locking device isautomatically returned into the inoperative position by the pendulumstriking against said guide arm it the doll is brought into the uprightposition. a g

The invention may be appliedto sleeping dolls with movable lids or tosleeping dolls with movable eyes. The guide arm instead of being mountedon the locking pin might be fixed on the pendulum. V

Whilst the device for locking the movement of the eyes according to theU. S. A. 7 Patent 1,412,670 is applicable only to dolls heads which areopen at the top the present invention presents the advantage that theeye-pendulum and the locking device can be mounted in dolls heads whichare closed on the top and open'only at the lower end of the neck.

. An embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of example, in theaccompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section through adolls head constructed according to the invention. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of Fig. 1. i I Fig. 3 is an elevation ofFig. 2seen' from 7below. V I

The eye balls 0, c oscillatably mounted 'in' the dolls head in ballsockets a and con nected with one another by a transverse b V are movedby means of a pendulum d, a Y A manner known per se, if'the doll islaiddown or lifted, so that if the dollis in the upright posit on the eyesare openedbut closed it the doll is approximately in horizontalposition.

On the inner surface ofthe head t t left j side a sleeve e is fixed-pastwhich the pendulum'd can freely pass. A pin 71. guided by means ofacrosspin '9 in the slot 7 of sleeve 6, serves, in the well known manner, as alocking device for the pendulum, the sliding movement of said pin,produced by gravity when the'position of the doll is altered, bemglimited by the cross pin g coming in contact with the ends of slot f; Ifthe pin it is in the extreme outer position (indicated in dash lines inFigs. 2 and 3) it projects in the path oi the pendulum (Z.Thearrangement according to this inventiondiiier's from the arrangementofknown'type in that on the free end of pin 72. and arm 2' is-fixedwhich 7 3 serves as guiding path for the pendulum and, 1 p with this obect in view, is bent from out of o the planeof oscillation of.theipendulumvt wards the rear end ofsleeve e.

If itis desired that the eyes be open while the doll is lying down, thedoll has to be brought into the upright position, so that the eyes arekept open bythe pendulum. By inclining. the doll to one side the pin itis made to project from the sleeve-e and to get behind the pendulum (Z,the oscillating movements of which are thus locked so that as longas thelocking lasts the doll keeps the eyes open. The locking mechanism isreleased by inclining the doll inopposite direction, so that thependulum can freelyoscillate.

Accidental lockingof the pendulum d in V a sleeping position isprevented by the arm i against which the pendulum'strikes in its forwardoscillating movement so that the pin It is pushed back into the sleeveeone sidethere of and having a longitudinal Y slidably .mounted in saidsleeve slot, a pin.

path of'said pendufor movement into the lum, a cross pm mounted in saidslidablepin ot the doll andengaging With the slot in said sleeve,

v and arguldingemeans on said pin for pre venting accidental locking ofsaid pendulum.

2. Ina .dolls head Withsleeping eyes, in combination with the eyes, apendulum for operating the eyes, a device in the head for 7 locking andreleasing said pendulum 'comprising a sleeve fixed in the-head'at rightangles to said pendulum and at the remand one sidethereof and having alongitudinal slot, a, pin slidably mounted in said sleeve for movementinto the path-of said pendulum, a cross pin mounted in said slidable pinand engaging with thefslot in said sleeve, and an arm fixed at one endto the front end of said slidable pinand curved inwards to V WALDEMARsoRGEL; a

